Peters Projection (world) map

This has been in the news recently, especially since some Boston schools have been using it – see MindshiftStudents See A New World With More Accurate Mapsin which ” Introduced at a conference in Germany in 1974, historian Arno Peters’ map aims to fix the Mercator’s inaccuracies, which vastly exaggerate the size of land masses approaching the north and south poles — and in doing so, help prop up a decidedly eurocentric worldview.”